Seems nice! Probably I'll be using a MacOS server very soon. But and what about development tools? Do you use any? I'm now using IBM's Eclipse Project under RedHat Linux. Man, you work at Machintosh, don't you? :-)
On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 15:22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I dropped my PC for development work once I got on MacOSX (Nope I'm not > aspiring to be in an Apple add) but it's worth exploring for those of > you who are thinking about it. MacOSX is an excellent option for > serving JSP and great Java platform in general. It gives Java a red > carpet treatment for example it provides a decent class browser, tools > to turn your Java apps into double-clickable apps, some Swing > enhancements provide for the Aqua look and feel etc. The shipping JDK > is 1.3.1 but 1.4.x is at it's final beta stages. I have used Tomcat 3.x > and currently on 4.1.12, > > I personally prefer it to any version of Windows since it adds a > gazillion cool things on top of its Unix implementation. However, If > your are the proud "vi" type of developer then you may not care about > UI tricks etc. But the core Unix is is there as expected. Some > differences exist but nothing too dramatic. If interested, there's an > excellent book out there by O'Reilly, "MacOSX for Unix Geeks" which > describes these: > > http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/mosxgeeks/ > > As far as J2EE is concerned, all the Opensource J2EE apps that I come > across so far > perform as well as they would in any other Unix i.e. JBoss, OpenEJB, > Tomcat, Jetty, Apache -but this is just a gut feel > assessment, I have no formal metrics. > > > On Thursday, November 21, 2002, at 09:37 AM, Martin Redington wrote: > > > > > On Thursday, November 21, 2002, at 01:31 PM, Martin Jacobson wrote: > > > >> Felipe Schnack wrote: > >>> Anyone have experience with Tomcat on MacOS X servers? Or with > >>> java in > >>> general? I would like to know if these machines are good options for > >>> serving jsp or I should stick with PCs... > >> > >> I'm running Apache + mod_jk + Tomcat 4.1.12 + OpenSSL + MySQL on Mac > >> OS 10.2 and it all runs just fine! > >> > >> Check the archives - someone posted recently regarding probs with Mac > >> OS X *Server* - IIRC, WebObjects is pre-installed, and generates some > >> conflicts with Tomcat. > > > > That was me. If you're running on OS X Server, there's a catalina.jar > > in /Library/Java/Extensions, or maybe in /Library/Java/Home/lib/ext/, > > or at least somewhere in the system classpath (see the archives). > > > > I'm not sure what this is used by ... not the default tomcat install, > > but *maybe* by WebObjects (although quite possibly not). > > > > Anyway, you will need to disable this file somehow (I gzipp'ed it) to > > get a custom install of tomcat (> 4.0.6, but probably some lower > > versions as well) to run. > > > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > For additional commands, e-mail: > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- Felipe Schnack Analista de Sistemas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cel.: (51)91287530 Linux Counter #281893 Faculdade Ritter dos Reis www.ritterdosreis.br [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fone/Fax.: (51)32303328 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
